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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP, are you and your husband something like federal judges, with guaranteed for life jobs?  Are you both irreplaceable uniquely skilled workers with special knowledge essential to the preservation of the Republic?  I'm misunderstanding something here-- you seem to be saying you and your husband are guaranteed lifetime employment or at least until you decide to retire or resign voluntarily.  And somehow Trump is illegally threatening your guaranteed lifetime employment?

Aside from that, what is the issue here? [/quote]

OP here. I could say the same thing to a friend who works in the private sector, who has had a good job for 20 years but the new CEO is a well-known prick and wants to fire half the staff to bring in his cronies. I would never tell them that’s just how it is, you’re not guaranteed a job, buck up and job hunt and I’m (sanctimoniously) praying to Jesus for you. Moshing saying shit like that to a friend living a middle class life paying for a few kids and trying to save for college and retirement. What kind of a person would lack empathy? Or is it just, as the Avenue Q song went… Schadenfreude? 
It’s like saying to someone who just found of they have cancer, “well, you did smoke 30 years ago and even if you didn’t smoke, the Potomac is tainted and you chose to live near it, but alas, I’ll pray for you!” [/quote]

OP wtf are you on about now?  You asked whether it was ok for you to stay friends with Trumpers who you disagreed with politically.  But you emphasized that you feel threatened by Trump's supposedly trying to cut you and your husbands jobs.  Who the heck knows whether or not your jobs should or shouldn't be on the chopping block? Or actually are?
 
Now you're inserting your resentment about other friends private jobs and their bosses?  It's really none of your concern, and it's not your other friends concern to be politically aligned with your Trump hatred to the exclusion of all other considerations.

All those claiming to hate Trump to the extent that they will shed friends and family simply because they vote the wrong way or espouse differing political opinions are behaving exactly the opposite of the way they should be if they in fact are trying to be rational change agents.  That's the key that you and people like you are essentially brainwashed.

A rational person would be trying to use their personal connections to effectuate change in the beliefs of those other persons through persuasion.

Those are potential votes.  Your devotion to primitive identity politics is self defeating.

And you and other Progressives and Leftists are locked into that trap because your identity politics are more important to you psychologically than actually accomplishing whatever it is that you claim to want to accomplish politically.

For example, since you led with the sanctity of your federal jobs, what is it that you actually do and how much are you being paid for it? That's what you would have to discuss if you actually want to persuade other people to vote your way for that reason.  Instead you gratuitously attack some other friends CEO.  That's totally irrelevant.

You're irrational.
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